RN Job Description
RN Job Description
Registered Nurses provide basic and advanced nursing care and education for patients, families and members of the community.
The RN job description includes responsibility for recording a patient’s medical history and current symptoms, assessing the patient, performing diagnostic tests, administering treatments, and maintaining IV lines. The Registered Nurse is responsible for establishing the plan of care, assigning tasks to LPN’s and delegating to unlicensed assistive personnel.
- Registered nurses constitute the largest health care occupation, with about 3.1 million jobs
- About 3 out of 5 registered nurses work in hospitals
- Registered nurses are projected to create the second largest number of new jobs among all occupations. In fact, by the year 2020 the projected RN shortage will reach 800,000.
- Today's nurses can now be found in professional venues you might not think of. Nurses influence legislation, change health care delivery systems, write and publish, educate about disease prevention and health promotion, and participate on boards of directors.
- Nurses are not only known for their honesty and ethical standards, but also for their ability to reduce infection, falls, pressure ulcers, thrombosis and death which points to their intrinsic value.
Nursing is a growing profession! Look at the facts according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics:
- Average RN Salary: $59,000
- Annual openings: 120,000
- 10.2% job growth rate
To become a Registered Nurse, you must take the required course work to earn an Associate Degree in Nursing. Upon successfully completing the education, you are eligible to take the NCLEX-RN exam, and upon passing, can become a Registered Nurse.
The 1+1 program at Hondros College allows you to earn your Associate Degree in Nursing and your Registered Nurse license in just 2 1/2 years. This is the same license that you will earn in a traditional 4 year program.
The Associate Degree in Nursing program is offered at the Westerville, Fairborn, and West Chester campuses.
It will be offered at the Cleveland campus in 2012.
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